Question

I am attempting to load data from a *.csv file off my VM of the Greenplum Community edition; however, I am having issues creating the external table.

CREATE EXTERNAL 
    TABLE flightinfo (flightid int, airline_id int, carrier character(2), fl_num int)
    LOCATION ('gpfdist://home/gpadmin/Desktop/flighttable.csv') FORMAT 'CSV';

This keeps giving an error where it is unable to translate the host name…I’ve tried with localhost and others, but still nothing appears to be working.

Answer 1

External table declarations need the name of the host, the port your gpfdist instance is listening on, and the filename.

If you have gpfdist running on port 8000 in directory /localhome/gpadmin/Desktop:

CREATE EXTERNAL 
TABLE flightinfo (flightid int, airline_id int, carrier character(2), fl_num int)
LOCATION ('gpfdist://localhost:8000/flighttable.csv') FORMAT 'CSV';